What are some healthy foods/recipes that are easy to make?

My boyfriend has high blood pressure and is 40 pounds over weight for his age, only 19 years old. He eats very unhealthy foods, like fast food every day. I want to help him change that, and get healthy. By doing so, im willing to make him food everyday that is good for him, but im not to sure of anything that is healthy, yet still tastes good to eat. Please send me recipes or just ideas of what I could make him. Thanks =]What are some healthy foods/recipes that are easy to make?
There are lots of options to be healthy, but remember to include some good fats and flavor in your recipies because otherwise he won't want to stick to his new diet and will end up binging. Not good. Also, no frying (!) and the less butter or oil you use the better.





Any kind of chicken or fish broiled or grilled (with creative seasonings to change it up) is great paired with fresh steamed veggies w/ salt and pepper. sounds boring but it's great if you spice it up with herbs, light cheeses, lemon zest, etc., you can have different flavors all the time.





Get light italian dressing and drizzle over sliced tomatoes, cucumbers and low fat feta cheese for a side dish.





My favorite snack right now is baby carrots with hummus (roasted red pepper flavor) and it's awesome. filling and flavorful and light on calories. If ever in doubt, wrap your favorite salad, easy on dressing, in a pita or something.





These are only ideas, nothing fancy, but hopefully it helps!What are some healthy foods/recipes that are easy to make?
Any grilled white meat is the healthiest, mainly chicken and fish. Steamed veggies are good too. Go on www.allrecipes.com
I think that's great that you want to help! The first step is making sure there are healthy snacks around. Yogurt instead of ice cream, fruit like bananas and apples instead of potato chips (or at least the baked kind of potato chips if he has to have them), use whole grain bread instead of white bread, etc. Carrots with ranch dressing is a classic great snack too.





My family enjoys stir frys with broccoli, sweet peppers, and carrots. Basically, you just cut up the vegetables and saute them in a pan that you sprayed Pam on. Pour on some soy sauce for flavor. Make some rice in a separate pot (buy plain long grain rice or yellow rice and follow the directions on the package) and serve the vegetables over the rice. You can put shrimp or chicken or even strips of steak in your stir fry. If you use different colors of peppers, it's a really pretty dish. You can even buy pre-made stir frys in the frozen section of the grocery store (like Create-a-Meal or other brands).
awww. that's so sweet! Well, you can look on the food network website. www.foodnetwork.com. I'm sorry, I can't help you if you're not looking for links.
YANKEE POT ROAST, COLE SLAW AND JELLO:





Pot roast using the slow cooker


2 lb chuck roast


1 pkg lipton onion soup mix, dry


1 can cream mushroom soup, campbells


1 celery stalk, diced


1 onion, diced


2 whole carrots, peeled and cut


4 potatoes, peeled and cut in 1/4


1 crushed garlic clove


3 tbsp flour


1 Reynold's slow cooker liner, optional





The slow cooker liner makes cleaning up a snap!


In the crock pot, add the can of cream mushroom soup, a can of water, the lipton dry soup, flour and mix the ingredients well.





Add the roast and the garlic. Mix around til covered with soup mix. Add the onions and veggies. Add water to barely cover the veggies (remember the water level may go up during cooking!).





Cover and turn crock pot to med/low. Cook 6-8 hours and it will be so tender! Serves 3-4








MEXICAN COLE SLAW


1 avocado, ripe, peeled and diced


1/2 bunch cilantro, finely diced


1 large tomato diced


1/2 cabbage, sliced and diced


1/4 c diced celery


1/2 brown onion, diced


1 fresh jalapeno, seeds removed then diced


Mayo


salt/pepper to taste





In a large bowl - Add the cabbage, then the cilantro, tomato, celery / onion, jalapeno and a dash of salt/pepper.


Add the avocado then 2 -3 tbsp of mayo or just enough to moisten to your taste. Mix well. Chill for 1 hour and serve cold





JELLO DESSERT


1 pkg large jello, any flavor


coolwhip


fresh fruit





Make the jello as on the package but use 1/2 cup less water.


Add fresh fruit like fresh strawberries, grapes, chopped apples. Let it gel for 4-6 hours. Mix up the jello and add 1/4 tub of cool whip. Add more if desired. Mix well, and its like an ambrosia.





Put the mix in a glass, and top with more fresh fruit or coolwhip.


Serves 4